I spent 20 years plus in the US Army. I served in the 1970-1992. I spent 10 years in Germany. One of those tours was in an armored cavalry unit on the east-west German border pulling border patrol. We trained, trained, trained on keeping the Red horde from coming across the Fulda Gap. Now all that was wasted. The Soviets simply out waited us. Let us come home. Waited until the stupid United States elected an idiot punk community communist organizer as president. Now it has. Now the Soviets have no opposition from coming across the border. Soon, Comrade Putin will pull off shortly what the Reds wanted for 70 years.

The Soviets simply out waited us. Let us come home. Waited until the stupid United States elected an idiot punk community communist organizer as president. Now it has. Now the Soviets have no opposition from coming across the border.

The Germans would have given away western europe long ago had there not been American boots on the ground there. Before it was the pinkos. Now it is the corporatists. Doesn’t really matter who does it. The result is the same.

Democracy in action, the Arab Spring was so glorious( sarc.)thanks to Obama and now we have a Slavic Spring too, an unanticipated extra! After all Saint Obama started it!

From the leftist POV Putin is doing what Obama did , but in this case it is art imitating garbage. Putin annexed Crimea firing only 2 rifle shots at Sevastapool.No way Obama can even come close to that, because Obama had jihadists attack his own people in Benghazi to thumb his fascist nose at the U.S. military industrial complex.....WOW!(No contest /S.) At least Putin does not betray his own on the face of it.And this is way far from over, Pooty is just getting started.

I predict Obama may get so desperate he will call in G. W. Bush as a special envoy to Russia, Pooty and Bush actually enjoyed each others company.

Ukraine should respond in kind to Russia, but in this case, call for Russia to relinquish territories that are not majority Russian. They could even throw a lug wrench into things by calling for the “repatriation” of Siberia with China. The twist here is that the Chinese have quietly been sending a lot of Chinese into eastern Siberia, to demographically take it over, which has been bugging Moscow.

~Zhirinovsky, whose nationalist Liberal Democratic party largely backs President Vladimir Putin in the Russian parliament, sent the letter as Russia annexed the Crimea region of southern Ukraine last week.

He is deputy speaker at the Duma and his party holds a minority in the parliament. But his ideas and language resonate with a large part of the Russian population and the Kremlin’s increasingly pro-nationalist rhetoric....

...His letter, seen by Reuters, suggested Poland, Hungary and Romania, who are now in the European Union, might wish to take back regions which he said were in the past their territories....

...The regions were incorporated into Ukraine when it was part of the Soviet Union at the end of World War Two and featured in a secret annex of the 1939 Molotov-Ribbentrop pact under which the Soviet and Nazi German foreign ministers carved up the area...

“It’s never too late to correct historical errors,” Zhirinovsky wrote.

And... since NATO’s establishment, how many of its member nations were overrun by the Soviets during Cold War?

If Putin wants part of Estonia NATO isn’t going to stop him. If NATO was intending to military engage Russia they would deploy some units into the Baltics or Poland. That’s the thing to watch for. That NATO hasn’t done that tells you all you need to know. NATO forces will never get to the theater of war in time should Putin decisively move on Estonia.

NATO as a Cold War style military force is done. The banksters and corporatists running the west are not interested in a shooting war with Russia. Too much money to be made I guess.

Stalin arbitrarily chopped off parts of Poland to make it more manageable. Putin has a point when he said the Communists repeatedly redrew national boundaries without paying attention to the ethnic composition of the population or national interests involved.

Ukrainians comprise 80% of the population of Ukraine. In East and South, despite Russian populations, Ukrainians comprise a majority. During USSR times, there was a massive Russian migration into those regions, so the whole statement is just a fart in the wind.

Russia as a Cold War style military force is also "done." NATO has not moved forces into the Baltics because nobody in NATO believes Putin is suicidal. If Putin invades a NATO country, it's World War III, and the fantasies of a glorious NeoSoviet® Empire will be kicked to the curb of history.

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